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The Seattle Angel Conference is a team effort of many people who are interested in expanding the opportunities for startups in the community. If you are interested in contributing to project as a volunteer or as an organizer, please drop us a note and let us know what you would like to work on.

John Sechrest

John Sechrest started as a software engineer at HP, writing network code for calculators. He is the founder of PEAK Internet services. He spent 5 years as the Economic Development Director of Corvallis Oregon, where he founded the Willamette Angel Conference. He participated in the Oregon Angel Fund. He is working to bring that model of community investing to Seattle with the Seattle Angel Conference. 





Christina Storm

Christina Storm has 19 years of software development experience at Microsoft Corporation, spanning diverse businesses including Windows, Office, Visual Studio, Xbox, SharePoint and SQL Server. She gained extensive knowledge in managing the product development lifecycle from the initial planning phase to delivery, both for established products and for new incubations. She is happiest when helping teams convert vision into reality, and when she drives strategic planning and customer development.  She is a member of Alliance of Angels, Seattle, and an active participant in the Seattle Startup Community. Christina has a master’s degree in translation/interpretation/linguistics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and moved to Seattle in early 1993 to work for Microsoft. She finds the weather in Seattle slightly better than in Hamburg. Her LinkedIn profile is at http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissto.

Charlie Kindel

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  Charlie Kindel was formerly the General Manager for the Windows Phone Developer Ecosystem at Microsoft where he drove the creation of the application and game ecosystem for Windows Phone 7. During his 21 year tenure at Microsoft, Charlie worked on Premier Support, Internet Explorer, ActiveX, Windows NT, Windows home networking, Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server, and Windows Phone 7. He is a founder and CTO of a stealth Seattle startup, and an active angel investor, mentor and advisor in the Seattle startup community.